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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Allowing Users to set Quota to less than Mailbox Size]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>ZhangHuangbin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Request accepted. Will try to implement this in next iRedAdmin-Pro release: disallow domain admin to set mailbox quota size lower than mailbox size. Note: global admin can do this as usual.</p></blockquote></div><p>Awesome. Thank You.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[sbignell]]></name>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T21:58:04Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Allowing Users to set Quota to less than Mailbox Size]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Request accepted. Will try to implement this in next iRedAdmin-Pro release: disallow domain admin to set mailbox quota size lower than mailbox size. Note: global admin can do this as usual.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[ZhangHuangbin]]></name>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T06:40:46Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Allowing Users to set Quota to less than Mailbox Size]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>ZhangHuangbin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I understand what you mean.<br />Do you want to disallow admin to set quota lower than actually mailbox size?</p></blockquote></div><p>Yes, that would be preferred. Otherwise, they would be able to manipulate the mailboxes to exceed their 6GB of allowed space.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T02:04:19Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I understand what you mean.<br />Do you want to disallow admin to set quota lower than actually mailbox size?</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[ZhangHuangbin]]></name>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T01:59:06Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Allowing Users to set Quota to less than Mailbox Size]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>ZhangHuangbin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Do you want to limit to current mailbox size? If mailbox is now 2.85GB, then mailbox size cannot be set to lower than 2.85GB?</p></blockquote></div><p>It appears they have set the mailbox for manager@ to 1MB (see screenshot), and were then allowed to set the info@ account to almost 6GB as iredmail just looks at the allocated space, not the actual space I assume?</p><p>I don&#039;t believe they should be able to set a 2.85GB mailbox to less than 2.85GB.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T01:54:32Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Allowing Users to set Quota to less than Mailbox Size]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to limit to current mailbox size? If mailbox is now 2.85GB, then mailbox size cannot be set to lower than 2.85GB?</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[ZhangHuangbin]]></name>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T01:46:09Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====<br />- iRedMail version (check /etc/iredmail-release): <br /> 1.6.1 OPENLDAP</p><p>- Deployed with iRedMail Easy or the downloadable installer?<br /> Downloadable installer</p><p>- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: <br />AlmaLinux release 8.10</p><p>- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): <br /> LDAP</p><p>- Web server (Apache or Nginx):<br />NGINX</p><p>- Manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin-Pro?<br />Yes</p><p>- [IMPORTANT] Related original log or error message is required if you&#039;re experiencing an issue.<br />====</p><p>Hi</p><p>I have a customer with 3 email accounts on his domain. We allow 6GB per domain. One of his accounts (manager@) has 2.96GB of mail, and he was running low on another account (info@), so he has set manager@ to only 1MB, even though it has almost 3GB of emails in the mailbox) and increased the info@ mailbox to almost 6GB effectively meaning that they can take up 8.9GB of space by technically disabling manager@ (set to 1MB so it won&#039;t receive any further mail)</p><p>Is there any way to stop this currently?</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2026-07-13T00:22:03Z</updated>
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